Flatsonar

Tau

by Rasmus “Cogitri” Thomsen

GTK frontend for the xi text editor

Broad permissions Unverified publisher MIT v0.11.3
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About

Tau is a GTK frontend for the xi text editor written in Rust. It’s a very fast plain text editor.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • dconf: all GNOME settings
    --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to xdg-run/dconf
    --filesystem=xdg-run/dconf
  • access to xdg-config/dconf
    --filesystem=xdg-config/dconf:ro
  • sets environment variable DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR
    --env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • https://github.com/likewu2/tau also publishes this app id
    publisher:collision
  • packaged by github.com/cogitri, not by the org.gnome namespace owner; it does build the owner's code from https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Tau
    publisher:namespace
  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing
    source:unpinned
  • the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
    build-options:--share=network

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.